mweir145 wrote:None of that is the issue here, though. The problem is...why would any baseball team that places an emphasis on winning no matter the cost sign Richie Sexson over Barry Bonds? It's a case for collusion if I've ever seen one.

Because Bonds is going to prison and they don't want to have to deal with that mid season

mweir145 wrote:None of that is the issue here, though. The problem is...why would any baseball team that places an emphasis on winning no matter the cost sign Richie Sexson over Barry Bonds? It's a case for collusion if I've ever seen one.

Because Bonds is going to prison and they don't want to have to deal with that mid season

There is no issue of him going to prison this season (if that even happens after the season is over, because that's incredibly in doubt), and every GM knows it.

Matthias wrote:[quote="acsguitar"New York fans are an interesting breed. Do you think they'd boo Bonds even on their own team?

I believe that I once heard that there have been only 2 yankees players who were never booed. I can't recall one of them but Don Mattingly was one.[/quote]

Well Mattingly never played on good teams so I would say the fans expectations were a little lower than the situation where Jeter was booed. I think fans expectations for a team are what drives their booing for their own players.

mweir145 wrote:None of that is the issue here, though. The problem is...why would any baseball team that places an emphasis on winning no matter the cost sign Richie Sexson over Barry Bonds? It's a case for collusion if I've ever seen one.

Because Bonds is going to prison and they don't want to have to deal with that mid season

There is no issue of him going to prison this season (if that even happens after the season is over, because that's incredibly in doubt), and every GM knows it.

Well would your job hire you if you were federally indicted? And a rumored illegal drug abuser.